Important Information for Parents from Room 14
Absences:
If your child is absent, you must send a note to the school when
he/she returns. Please include your child’s first and last name,
teacher’s name, date of absence, and the reason for the absence. All notes
must be signed by a parent or guardian. These notes are kept in the
student’s permanent folder in the office.
Attendance:
Regular school attendance is essential for your child to
progress in school, both academically and socially. Please make every
effort to have your child at school everyday.
School hours:
Birthdays:
Birthdays are special occasions for young children. I recognize each child's birthday with a birthday crown and we sing
the "Happy Birthday" song and the birthday child is my special helper throughout the day. We celebrate the summer
birthdays during the month of June. We have children who have food allergies so please,
do not send in any kind of food.
Party invitations may be passed out at school, ONLY if everyone in the class is invited to the birthday party.
This keeps a child from feeling left out.
Changes in Transportation:
If you plan to pick up a child that normally rides the bus or someone other than
yourself is taking your child home you must send a written note or contact
the office at 413- 594-3425. Do not rely on your child to tell us this
information, because children forget to tell us or they relay the
information incorrectly. If no written note or phone call is received,
your child will be sent home by his/her usual method of transportation.
Homework: Follow the directions on the weekly newsletter and do the following activities.
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER
Have your child practice writing his/her first and last name. Write the first letter with a capital letter and
the rest with lower case. Have your child practice naming the letters of the alphabet. Your child should be able
to name the upper (capital) and lower case letters of the alphabet even when they are presented out of alphabetical order.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER
Read to your child for 10-15 minutes each day. As you read to your child talk about who the characters
are in the story, where the story takes place and what the problem is in the story...and how it gets solved.
Then have your child retell the story in his/her own words.
DECEMBER - MAY
Follow the schedule outlined below.
MONDAY: Review the letter of the week (upper case & lower case), practice printing the letters.
Complete the worksheet and return it to school.
TUESDAY: Learn the high-frequency words from the Word List (flashcards). Practice writing the high frequency
words from our word list. Write each new word 5 times.
WEDNESDAY: Read the take-home book, write a list of rhyming words on the back of the book.
THURSDAY: Re-read the take-home book (3 times). Have your child use the new high-frequency words
to write 3 sentences on the paper provided.
Have your child put the paper in the green folder and return it to the teacher.
Example: I like my cat. I see a dog and a fish. My cat and dog have a tail.
Read to your child for 10-15 minutes each day. As you read to your child talk about who the characters are in the
story, where the story takes place and what the problem is in the story...and how it gets solved.
Then have your child retell the story in his/her own words.
Money:
All money should be brought to school in an envelope. Please print your child’s
first and last name, room number (K-14) and the dollar amount on the outside of
the envelope.
Parent/ Teacher Conferences:
Please wait until after November 1st to schedule a conference. I am
available Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday or Friday. We can meet at
You can also e-mail me or send a note in with your child.
My e-mail address: cjacques@chicopee.k12.ma.us
Show N’Tell:
We begin show n’ tell in DECEMBER
when we start Theme 4 in
Together” Children will be assigned a specific week to bring in their item for show n' tell.
Each child’s show n’tell object should be something that relates to the
current theme in reading or it can relate to the current month, holiday or season of
the year. Each child will orally give 3 clues about what
they have hidden in their backpacks and the class will try to guess what
it is. Please help your child to find an object that relates to our theme.
Children should practice talking about their show n’ tell object by giving
clues aloud in front of their family. Please do not send in pets,
weapons, toy guns, video games, anything of great value or that can’t be
replaced. Kindergarteners try to be careful, but some things do get lost
or broken so help your child to choose his/her object carefully. Each
child should be able to speak clearly with adequate volume while they are
explaining or talking about the object they brought from home. Each child
should also try to be a good listener so that he/she may respond to the
speaker by asking questions or by telling the speaker what parts they
liked the most about the show n’ tell and why those parts were
interesting.
School Work:
Please look in your child’s backpack each day. We send all school news by
way of your child in your child’s GREEN HOME/SCHOOL COMMUNICATION FOLDER.
These folders will come home daily and are to be sent back to school each day.
Please use the blue communication folder to return all notes, money and other important
papers back to me.
Support Staff:
Mrs. Belair------------------- Paraprofessional
Mrs. Varhue ----------------- ESL Teacher
Mrs. Kris -------------------- ESL Teacher
Mrs. Yanyuk ---------------- ESL Paraprofessional
Teacher:
Mrs. Jacques
Looking Forward to a Great Year!